Extension-drawer and the like.



H. HILABADIE & B. B. BEERS. EXTENSI ON DRAWER AND THE LIKE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 9, l9l6.

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H. H. LABADIE.& s. B. BEERS. EXTENSION DRAWER AND THE LIKE. APPLICATION FILED MAR-9,1916.

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HARRY H. LABADIE AND BURTON B. BEERS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINGIS; SAID BEERS ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO THE WILLIAM SOHWEITZER ESTATE,

OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

EXTENSION-DRAWER AND THE LIKE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patenteol Apr. 3, 1917.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, HARRY H. LABADIE and BURTON B. Bnnns, citizens of the United States, and residents of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have jointly invented certain new and useful Improvements in Extension-Drawers and the like; and we do hereby declare that the fol lowing description of our said invention, taken in connection with the accompanying sheets of drawings, forms a full, clear, and exact specification, which will enable others skilled in the art to which our said invention appertains to make and use the same.

This invention has general reference to extension drawers and the like, and especially to that class of drawers, trays, and like receptacles, in which a series of superposed receptacles are connected to each other, that by pulling at one of said receptacles all of the receptacles below the one pulled may be opened and their contents exposed to view.

The object of this invention is to so connect a series of trays, drawers and similar receptacles that by pulling at the uppermost one of the superposed receptacles, the entire series will be extended so that the contents thereof may be readily inspected and removed without separating one of said receptacles from the others.

A further object of this invention is to so connect this series of receptacles that any one thereof may be readily disconnected from the remaining receptacles and reconnected therewith when desired.

In link-connected trays such as have been heretofore made and sold, the connection between the trays has invariably been a fixed one, i. 0. they could not be separated without considerable labor and frequently without destroying the tray.

It is often the case that in this style of trays one or more thereof while in use or in transit become damaged. To repair this damage the entire unit of trays has to be forwarded to the manufacturer to remove and replace the injured tray or trays, involving considerable expense and delay. By our present construction we are enabled to furnish any one or more receptacles which the purchaser can readily substitute for damaged ones. We can also supply additional receptacles which can be readily attached to an existing set or unit which is quite a convenience to the owner of a set who desires to increase the capacity of a unit.

With these objects in view, and others that may hereafter appear, our invention consists, essentially, in the novel and peculiar con'ibination of parts and details of construction, as hereinafter first fully set forth and described, and then pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings already referred to, which serve to illustrate this invention more fully, Figure 1 is a plan of one of the receptacles constructed in accordance with our invention. Fig. 2, is an end elevation of a series of superposed receptacles showing the same in retracted position. Fig. 3 is a plan of one of the connecting members detached. Fig. 4: is an end elevation of a series of superposed receptacles, showing the same in extended position. Fig. 5 is a plan of a fragment of two superposed and extended receptacles, illustrating the means whereby they may be readily separated from each other. Fig. 6 is a detail view of one of the studs employed in this construction.

Like parts are designated by the same symbols and characters of reference in all the various figures.

A, A A A &c., designate a series or multiplicity of superposed receptacles, such as drawers, trays, &e. They are, generally speaking, of box-like construction and made from board, wood, metal, or other suitable material, and of any desired size and depth. These receptacles are removably connected, one to the other, by links or slides 12, one at each end of said receptacles; and since these slides are alike and exact duplicates, a description of one will apply to all of them.

Such a slide 12 is preferably made from a flat, rectangular, preferably metallic, blade of a length approximately the width of the receptacle, and. of a width slightly less than the depth of the drawer or tray, except in cases where these receptacles are of considerable depth. In each of these links or slides 12 there are two longitudinal slots 13, 14, in parallel spaced relation and of proper length and width, there being at one end of the latter slot a notch or enlargement 15,'to which we shall hereinafter more particularly refer. 7

At each end of the receptacles A, A A &c., there are placed four studs 16, shown in detail in Fig. 6. These studs are, properly speaking, rivets comprising a body portion 17, and a head 18, said body-portion having a reduced shank 19.

This latter portion of the stud is passed through the end B, of the receptacle, a washer 20 in the inside, and a further washer 21, at the outside of the end B, serving to reinforce the structure and preventing the slides from rubbing on the ends of the container, the ends of the shanks 19 within the receptacle being upset or riveted as clearly shown to securely hold the studs in position. Two of these studs 16 are placed near the upper margin of the end of the box or receptacle and at one side of the center line thereof, while two more of these studs 16 are located near the lower margin of the receptacle and at the opposing side of the vertical ('zenter line thereof, asclearly illustrated in Figs. 2 and 1.

i In assembling this series of receptacles, there is placed on each end thereof one of the links or slides 12, said slides being movably attached by the lower set of studs 16 engaging the upper slot 13. This causes the lower halves of the slides to project beyond the lower margin of the receptacle.

Now the slides are pushed outwardly to as- 35 sume the position shown in Fig. 4E, and the end of the slide having the notch or enlargement 15, placed first over the upper stud 16 nearest the left end of the next lower receptacle and then moved farther along to pass the head of the outermost stud of the upper studs through the enlargement when the first two receptacles will be movably connected; this operation is then continued with the next receptacle below and so forth until all the receptacles are properly connected. To remove one of the re ceptacles the reverse of the operations described are performed.

The slides 12 are preferably made from so-called strip metal which possess a slight degree of flexibility to avoid bending; and

' they are of a nature that permits their being cheaply produced in dies whereby exact duplicates result and the assembling as well as the furnishing of repairs greatly facilitated. The receptacles can never be separated by accident because a slight pulling or bending of the slides is necessary to pass them over the heads of the studs.

Having thus fully described our invention, we claim as new 1. A series of superposed receptacles, there being at each end of each receptacle near the upper margin thereof and at one side of a vertical center line, two fixed studs, and additional studs near the lower margin and at the opposite side of said center line, said studs having heads, slides on opposite ends of said receptacles, there being in each slide two longitudinal slots, in parallel, spaced relation, the upper one of said slots being constructed to engage the studs at the lower margin of said receptacle, and the lower one of said slots being constructed to engage the upper studs on the next lower receptacle, said latter slot having at one end an enlargement constructed to pass over the heads of the upper studs of the next lower receptacle, whereby the receptacles are slidably connected and reinovably attached to each other.

2. A series of superposed trays, said trays having two pairs of headed studs at opposing sides thereof, slides at opposing sides of said trays, said slides having longitudt nal slots in parallel spaced relationship, the upper one of said slots engaging the lower pair of studs on one tray and the lower one of said slots engaging the upper pair of studs on the neXt lower tray, there being at one end of the lower slots enlargements adapted to pass over the heads of the upper pair of studs on the next lower tray.

In testimony whereof, we have hereunto set our hands, at Chicago, 111., this 7th day of March 1916.

HARRY H. LABADIE. BURTON B. BEER-S.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

' Washington, D. G. 

